The real economic cleavage is not... between employers and employed, but between all who do constructive work, from scientist to laborer, on the one hand, and all whose main interest is the preservation of existing proprietary rights upon the other, irrespective of whether they contribute to constructive work or not.

As long as men are men, a poor society cannot be too poor to find a right order of life, nor a rich society too rich to have need to seek it.

It is probable that democracy owes more to nonconformity than to any other single movement.

Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are in common.

If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam.

When men have gone so far as to talk as though their idols have come to life, it is time that someone broke them.

One of the main truths of all education is that if the young are not always right, the old are always wrong.